What year? I remember a plane going down on 36 street. He couldn’t make the runway. Clipped one bldg. and a few caught on fire
The Panther bounce was around the late 50s?
Searching for pictures from the Herald!
http://www.pbase.com/donboyd/image/103114497
Weird happenings while searching the web.
21 September-—1956
Grumman company test pilot Tom Attridge shoots himself down in a Grumman F11F Tiger, BuNo 138260, during a Mach 1.0 20 degree dive from 22,000 feet (6,700 m) to 7,000 feet (2,100 m). He fires two bursts from the fighter’s 20 mm cannon during the descent and as he reaches 7,000 feet (2,100 m) the jet is struck multiple times, including one shell that is ingested by the engine, shredding the compressor blades. He limps the airframe back towards the Grumman airfield but comes down at almost the same spot where the first prototype impacted on 19 October: 1954. Pilot gets clear before jet burns, suffers only minor injuries – investigation shows that he had overtaken and passed through his own gunfire.[248